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Vulgar, crude, and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, this hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns, co-written by Richard Pryor, features Cleavon Little as the first black sheriff of a stunned town scheduled for demolition by an encroaching railroad. Little and co-star Gene Wilder have great chemistry, and the delightful supporting cast includes Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens, and Madeline Kahn as a chanteuse modelled on Marlene Dietrich. As in Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), and High Anxiety (1977), director/writer Mel Brooks gives a burlesque spin to a classic Hollywood movie genre; in his own manic, Borscht Belt way, Brooks was a central player in revising classic genres in light of Seventies values and attitudes, an effort most often associated with such directors as Robert Altman and Peter Bogdanovich . Some of this film's sequences, notably a gaseous bean dinner around a campfire, have become comedy classics.
"Where's all da white women at?"
Trivia: the famous quote from Blazing Saddles - “Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges!” was first used in a 1948 Humphery Bogart film - The Treasure of the Sierre Madre - “Badges? We ain’t got no badges! We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!”
BUT, it was also used in it's current form in a 1967 episode of the series The Monkees, Yes, THAT Monkees. MIckey Dolenz said, “Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges!”
I prefer to think of the line coming from a Humphrey Bogart movie rather than The Monkees.
Mongo only Pawn, in game of life.
baby please, I am not from Havana!
@mfladd
It was also in an episode of WKRP in Cincinnati a few years after The Monkees.
...oh...and "It's Hedley!"
'Scuse me while I whip this out! (Aagh!)
This is on here at least once a week and the same quotes are posted and the same up votes like it's all brand new. Give it a rest will ya! Quick someone add Spaceballs or History of the World.
Candygram for Mongo.
Good thing this movie was made back in the 70's before everyone got their shorts in a knot over political correctness. Great movie!
Is it twue what they say about your people...ziiiiiiiip...it's twue, it's TWUE!!
@nanaejt: Pfft. And they call ME Killjoy.
"You would do it for Randolph Scott"

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